DJ CherishTheLuv Have Music. Will Travel.

Audio & Video DJ for Hire

DJ CherishTheLuv is an International Mobile Audio&Video DJ, sparking events from NYC to an ever-growing list of locations in the Tri-State area, DC, NOLA, PA, LA, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Hawaii, Canada and Europe, with so much more to come on the calendar. Recently DJing for W Hotel, Punta de Mita, Mexico, DJ CherishTheLuv will DJ anywhere her passport will allow. Her current DJ Residencies are at Whole Foods Bryant Park NYC, Urban Vegan Kitchen, Heritage Radio Network and for the We Are Family Foundation. You’ll also see & hear her DJing the Blue Bird Party Bus, driving around NYC.

Meet DJ CherishTheLuv

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka, DJ CherishTheLuv, nicknamed by clients “the drama-free DJ,” has produced music, custom mixes, and DJ’d for weddings, events and shows, called on by Ryan Seacrest CIVIC, Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer, Nile Rodgers, the We Are Family Foundation, Viacom, Comedy Central, TEDtalks, The New School for Social Research, Goddard Foundation, Heritage Radio Network, You Can Thrive!, Vanity4Humanity, Project1Voice, and more. She has brought her goodie bag of music out for corporate celebrations, white parties, ladies nights, birthdays and galas, sharing the booming soundsystem with legends such as Nile Rodgers, Chic, Sister Sledge, Bono, Elvis Costello, Oprah Winfrey, and Talib Kweli, M-1 of Dead Prez, Peace Poets…, at hot locations; W Hotels, the Hammerstein Ballroom, The Bitter End, Cipriani, The Alexandria Center, Drom, LIU Paramount Theater, Stockholm’s Ice Bar, Studio 450, Slake, South Street Seaport, The Constellation Chicago, Turtle Bay Oahu, Wychwood Art Barns Toronto, and House of Yes to name a few. Cynthia Cherish Malaran has come quite a long way since making her first mix tape at age 7 of just two songs, over and over again; “We Built This City” and “Take On Me,” to designing album art for Latin music’s mega artists, Aventura. DJ CherishTheLuv is the official DJ of Nile Rodgers’ We Are Family Foundation.

Music Missionary

As a Music Missionary, Cynthia Cherish Malaran dedicates herself to spreading freedom of movement, joy and healing via music, rooted in a mindset she entitles “Music Heals.” She has taught DJing to children and adults ages 9-86, most recently to teenage girls at an orphanage in Ecuador and Willie Mae Rock Camp. DJ CherishTheLuv has brought music into the hospice setting, providing palliative pain care for terminally-ill patients. Her work in hospice was labelled “DJing for the dying” as she got paralyzed stroke patients to dance in bed, deaf patients to hear the music, and helped bring comfort in what is referred to in the hospice world as “the good death.” As a breast cancer survivor, Cynthia has written several pieces published and performed by Broadway actors in Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Visible Ink program. Music and creativity are her cornerstones for survival.

And yes, Cherish is her real middle name, given to her by her Mother, inspired by the oldies song of the same name, by The Association (“…Cherish is the word I use to describe…”). DJ CherishTheLuv got her DJ name from GZA, of the Wu-Tang clan.

MUSIC NIGHT at WHOLE FOODS BRYANT PARK

DJ CherishTheLuv is Whole Foods NYC's Resident DJ. Come and enjoy great food, drink and music at The Harbor Bar, every first Tuesday of every month at Bryant Park (in July it will be the 5th due to the holiday)

RESIDENT DJ NEWS

DJ CherishTheLuv is starting in August as resident DJ and launching a podcast radio station at one of the hottest soul food spots/lounges in NYC, Urban Vegan Kitchen.
Are you a funk/soul/hip hop/R&B artist with original music? Let's play it and get it heard by our diners and vegan/non-vegan celebs that roll through!
You do not have to be vegan to chill with us, you just have to be hungry for comfort food, great music and great peeps!
Follow @urbanvegankitchen and @djcherishtheluc on IG for updates and calendar

ATTENTION INDEPENDENT & UNSIGNED ARTISTS OF NYC!

DJ CherishTheLuv at Rockwood Music Hall, August 11, 2017 Spinning classics, the music you miss, new music and unsigned/independent local artists.

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Studio 450

I say on my dancefloors, well, if they WERE having a bad day… they aren’t anymore!

DJing at W hotel Punta de Mita, Mexico

DJing at Urban Sproule, NYC

DJing Lexington Ave NYC

PMS Poetic Music Sisters at DROM NYC, Photo by the legendary Michael Halsband

DJing at the only golden DJ Booth in NYC, my Vinyl-Only-Always Residency at Stanley’s Rx, on Ludlow Street NYC, with the awesome Stanley himself, spinning goodness from Ubiquity Records, Sheridan and Groove Merchant

Dear Questlove, one of my teachers, inspiration and reasons I DJ

DJing at L’Apicio NYC, for the Fall/Winter Season launch at Heritage Radio Network.

Chillin’ with my friends, Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation and Stanley George of Stanley’s Pharmacy. Go to iTunes and buy TC’s new album, The Temple of I & I. Hot stuff!

DJing for FoodKarma at the Old Paramount Theatre LIU Brooklyn

DJing in Silicon Valley CA

DJing at DROM NYC for the incredible PEACE POETS

Allentown Art Museum | Above The Fold

The DJ in Venice Italy 2014

FBF Flashback Friday…2013 reading Nile’s memoir in a suite in Seattle, getting inspired to mix “Chic Cheer” and “Love Like This” by Faith Evans in an empty hot tub because I needed better sound and had no speakers. Nothing odd about that, right??? Hahahaha

DJing at W hotel Punta de Mita, Mexico

AUSTIN, TX, I love you so much

Backstage at CHIC/Barclays Center

DJing and playing violin with the sultry Cecilie Beck

DJing for Nile Rodgers, Oprah, Jeni Stepanek, Annapolis MD

DJing at CIPRIANI with my assistant Jen Maler

DJing for Nile Rodgers, Oprah, Jeni Stepanek, Annapolis MD

Love&Music family with ALOE BLACC, KIMBERLY MOORE, four DJs; ME, TYLER THURMOND (BLACKSTREET’S DJ), DANIELA DJ XICA SOUL from Cookie Crew, and my brother holding the camera MISTA CHINN, We are working on the big love and a lot of music magic, trying to make this a better world.

Primary Food, DJ CherishTheLuv at IPR Studio 450 2016

Telling DJing stories on the mic at Carolines on Broadway NYC

DJing for FoodKarma events, NYC Brewers Choice 2017, with my radio host brother, the one and only Jimmy Carbone (Jimmy’s No. 43)

DJing Lexington Ave NYC

This Guy! One of my teachers and Scratch Academy family, DJ Rob Swift

Just a typical day at the TDD JPS WAFF Sound office at Studio 450

Good Times CherishTheLuv and Nile Rodgers

DJing Heritage Radio Network Holiday event at Brooklyn Kitchen NYC

DJing Hammerstein Ballroom WAFF

With DJ Dr. Koyama and DJ Dutchman at Rhythm Cafe, Tokyo, Japan

DJing to fellow patients at Sloan Kettering while hooked up to my chemotherapy…because Music Heals

You needed a party on wheels, right? Well, I got you! I’ve got a bus with a DJ booth on hand. Contact me to hire my mobile bus party unit. Check my videos page! You definitely need to get yourself an awesome New York experience like this that you and your guests will hashtag “epic” forever.

DJing for Nile Rodgers, Oprah, Jeni Stepanek, Annapolis MD

2014 music on my studio floor

Music Heals at the Roost

DJing YTWSS at Specials on C with my gurl Julie Sax

DJing at L’Apicio NYC, for the Fall/Winter Season launch at Heritage Radio Network.

DJ CherishTheLuv is Whole Foods NYC’s Resident DJ. Come and enjoy great food, drink and music at The Harbor Bar, every first Tuesday of every month at Bryant Park

DJing Hammerstein Ballroom WAFF

DJing and playing violin with the sultry Cecilie Beck

DJing at Studio 450 Just Peace Summit 2016

DJing at W hotel Punta de Mita, Mexico

DJing in New Orleans for Viacom

The Smith’s Andy Rourke and DJ CherishTheLuv, DJ brother and sister, running the show

GZA, the day I got my DJ name

DJing for Work Train Fight NYC FIGHT NIGHT

DJing Lexington Ave NYC

An ordained minister, Rev. & DJ CherishTheLuv has been doing Music Missionary work at an orphanage in Ecuador. She’s been teaching self-expression and healing, under the guise of DJing, to traumatized teenage girls.

DJing for Nile Rodgers, Oprah, Jeni Stepanek, Annapolis MD

Allentown Art Museum | Above The Fold

The Bitter End with Nile and Impact and GTLs

Music Production in the Ice Bar Stockholm, Sweden

DJing at L’Apicio NYC, this is my Heritage Radio Network Host Brother, the one and only, Jimmy Carbone!

Dear Questlove, one of my teachers, inspiration and reasons I DJ

DJing at W hotel Punta de Mita, Mexico

DJing at Urban Sproule, NYC

This Guy! One of my teachers and Scratch Academy family, DJ Rob Swift and the creator of the scratch, Grand Wizzard Theodore

Studio 450 mixing

DJing at DROM NYC, performing with M-1 of Dead Prez

With DJ Dr. Koyama at Rhythm Cafe, Tokyo, Japan

PMS Poetic Music Sisters at DROM NYC, Photo by the legendary Michael Halsband

DJing on the street, Alphabet City

DJing at the only golden DJ Booth in NYC, my Vinyl-Only-Always Residency at Stanley’s Rx, on Ludlow Street NYC, with the awesome Stanley himself

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Ryan Seacrest Civic hired DJ CherishTheLuv to close out the night for TBS Samantha Bee's Not The White House Correspondents Dinner, sharing the stage with Elvis Costello.

HUMANITARIAN WORK

An ordained minister, Rev. & DJ CherishTheLuv has been doing Music Missionary work at an orphanage in Ecuador. She's been teaching self-expression and healing, under the guise of DJing, to traumatized teenage girls.

Music Heals and Feeds The Soul

If you’re going to hire a DJ, why not hire one AND serve a great cause at the same time? Hiring DJ CherishTheLuv funds music healing for people of all ages and all walks of life. It also continues her personal journey from a double-mastectomy cancer patient to healed, inspirational speaker. You can feel good, really good, paying for a DJ. The beautiful ripple effect of your choosing DJ CherishTheLuv is immeasurable. Your event or wedding will help heal others. That’s not just good karma, that is great karma.

GOOD VIBES

My dear friend Andy Rourke, of the Smiths, and I surprise visited die-hard fans and beloved friends going through that gnarly chemotherapy!

DJ CherishTheLuv Party Bus

You needed a party on wheels, right? Well, I got you! I've got a bus with a DJ booth on hand. Contact me to hire my mobile bus party unit. Check my videos page! You definitely need to get yourself an awesome New York experience like this that you and your guests will hashtag "epic" forever.

NEW MUSIC

Chillin' with my friends, Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation and Stanley George of Stanley's Pharmacy. Go to iTunes and buy TC's new album, The Temple of I & I. Hot stuff!

DJ CherishTheLuv on the Air with Interesting People Radio

Check out the latest episodes with Host, DJ CherishTheLuv

DJ CherishTheLuv on Primary Food at Heritage Radio Network

Catch the latest episodes of Primary Food, on Heritage Radio Network, hosted by DJ CheristhTheLuv

COMING SOON

WHY I LOVE TO DJ, by DJ CherishTheLuv, Featuring Stories of DJing, Learning and Healing via Music, coming in 2018

WHEN YOU WANT A WOMAN DJ

Oh yes it's ladies night, oh what a night!
DJ CherishTheLuv has spun for many Ladies Night celebrations for clients like Urban Sproule and Heritage Radio Network. Best. Nights. Ever!
For cultural/social reasons, or strict religious reasons, many clients feel most comfortable hiring a female DJ—one who is fierce, professional, respectful and conscious of the messages about women in music selection. If that is you, whatever your reason is, I am here for you and your event. Go to the Contact Page to book DJ CherishTheLuv for your glorious Muslim, LGBTQQ or Ladies Night shindig!
Additionally, if you are concerned about improper conduct at your formal event, contact me. It's a real issue. You're not paranoid. See snapshot below on this topic, posted on a DJ networking group I am a member of: